Embarrassing ****-ups in autobiographies

Javed Miandad on Dennis Lillee

By the time we got to Perth, Dennis and I had already been going at each other for a while. In one of the side matches, a four day game against Queensland at Brisbane, I had scored a hundred and Dennis had been frustrated at not being able to get me out

You might wonder what DKL was doing turning out for Queensland, well I certainly did - turns out he wasn't, but one Dennis Lillie, a journeyman leg spinner did - mind you he didn't get Javed out, so he was right about that

"The PFA does not represent players when they have broken the law and been convicted on non-football matters."- Gordon Taylor in 2009 following Marlon King's release after a prison sentence for sexual assault & ABH

And yes, you'd think Miandad might have wondered why Dennis was bowling leg-spin. I expect he was similarly perplexed when he came up against Geoff Thompson.

And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW

Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta

I haven't read it for a while so hopefully my memory's accurate on this, but in Nasser Hussain's autobiography there's a photo of him and S. Waugh at the toss in Brisbane 02/03 (where Nasser did his ill-fated decision to bowl)... except it's a picture of Adelaide.

In 1991 Viv Richards second autobiography, Hitting Across the Line, appeared.

Understandably he talks about his first ever Test series in India in 1974/75 when he screwed up twice in the first Test, but then went on to get a matchwinning 192* in the second. He explains how watching Clive Lloyd deal with Chandra while they put on over 100 together helped him come to terms with batting against spin

Trouble is Chandra was left out of that match in favour of Venkat - whoops!

Still its not really his ghost's fault - he was probably reading a 1984 book of Sunny Gavaskar's that made the same mistake

The whole of Daniel Vettori's biography. Absolute ****. An embarrassment to the written word.

>>>>>>WHHOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH>>>>>>Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation SocietySupporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Adam Wheater - Another batsman off the Essex production line
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.

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